Bruce Cameron Quotes

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.